PSA: best value NA1 3.2 at the moment - R7NSX

[goldtop]

Just saw this one: www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201710230566183 and thought it was worth mentioning here for would-be buyers.

At £42k (not much more than a typical auto) it looks great value. UK car, manual, coupe, 3.2, late NA. Mild mods.

B*gg*r all info from the private seller though (don't think he's a forumite). Seems to be somewhere in Herts/Beds.

[NSXGB]

Is that not the infamous "Jaguar" development car?

[goldtop]

Infamous meaning...?

[drmikey]

Cheap car for someone, if legitimate advert (looks a bit dodgy tbh)

MOT history looks like it was in private hands

[NSXGB]

Infamous meaning...?

Post #3 onwards.
http://www.nsxcb.co.uk/showthread.php?15047-For-sale-at-Auction&highlight=Jaguar

[goldtop]

Hmmm... Cripes!

[drmikey]

Pmsl. Conveniently located airfreshener to hide the holes?


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[havoc]

Yeah, that's the car that was at BCA Warwick (Classic Car Auctions) back in September - papalazarou and I both had a nose around it, and both came away thinking it had been utterly mullered. Failed to fetch reserve, at an auction where a nearly-as-tatty (but one-owner/low-mile) UKDM DC2 fetched nearly £10k + buyers premium.

Ref. the Jag mule - zoom in on the cockpit photos, you can see the non-standard stitch/join lines in the corners of the dash (where it was cut to fit the cage by JLR).

Depending on the state / originality of the chassis underneath it's either a major project car (full respray, new dash, new engine bay cover, some serious decontamination of the boot, tidying up the naff HID fitment, yada yada), or a good part-out car.

[drmikey]

Was it ever damaged do you think Martin, or just well used? If its straight, very good car for resto. Prefacelift NA2 manual coupes are very few in number.

[havoc]

Very good question Mike - JLR would know the answer to that. Also depends how the cage was fitted / removed...although that shouldn't be a problem.

Agree it should be a good basis for a resto, but given the shopping list you'd want to be paying sub-£40k for it at most...unless you had ready/cheap access to some unmolested replacement parts... :cough:

Here's the CCA listing - "partial history", whatever that means...sorry to say I didn't bother asking for the paperwork.
https://www.classiccarauctions.co.uk/1997-honda-nsx-manual

[drmikey]

Holes in the floor is a bit of a turn off for a resto unfortunately

[Hagasan]

The guy I bought my car from worked at Aston Martin and knew about this car. Back in 2008 we discussed it and it seems it had lived a busy life dismantled, rebuilt, thrashed, dismantled etc and damaged on occasion. It ended up being rebuilt a bit of a bitsa from spares to clear out from what he said...

[goldtop]

Wow. Something to buy with your eyes wide open and some NSX experience then. The air freshener thing is very suspect.

Just checked the MOT history and it's not MOTed at the moment. So there could be some other expenses, too.

[goldnsx]

Regarding its price compared to the one of other cars on the market it should be obvious that this car is looking for 'its' buyer. It might not attact garage queen owners. It only would be disturbing if the car was double of its actual price.

[WhyOne?]

Pedant mode on....re thread title, there is no such thing as a 'NA1 3.2'. This is a pre-facelift NA2.

[goldtop]

Pedant mode on....re thread title, there is no such thing as a 'NA1 3.2'. This is a pre-facelift NA2.

But .... I ... well ... bugrit. You're right. :-/